Anyone else sick of the news?

[Lea]

I don´t know why the news should be making me afraid, it´s not afflicting my life anyway. At least most of it. And if it´s prices going up and things like that, it´s rather depressing than scary. At worst I will be going to pasture . But I hope I will always be able to earn at least for rice and potatoes. Or are my hopes too high

I wouldn´t like a war to come though. If there are wars in other countries, what can I do about it?

 

[dancingintherain]

urgh yes. it depresses me everytime, watching and leaning about how corrupt life is...and I think how stupid the whole thing is, money, law, governments.
I guess people with SP seem to have a more open mind? Maybe

 

[BlackPuma]

I've stopped watching the news quite some time ago. There was so much agony everywhere that I just couldn't distribute sympathy over everything that went on.

I couldn't even enjoy a nice cup of coffee or eat a donut without feeling terribly guilty about it. I wasn't living MY life, I was living my living in comparison to every else's. And since there's always someone doing worse then someone else, having a good day was non-existent then.

Now I'd rather watch a comedy show, or something positive. Looking at drama I have no possible way of resolving in any way doesn't help anybody anyway.

 

[aftermidnight]

I've never cared for news, except for financial news (because I do a lot of trading/investing) and even then I care only to an extent. If you think about it, 99% of news items are useless to you. So a child was killed today, unfortunate, but there's nothing I can do about it.

 

[MrJones]

It's something I feel like I have to do, to know what's going on in the world ()

But I don't really like most of the things on TV and how they sell it, news included :/

 

[vj288]

At college I never watch the news, I'll occasionally click an article on my email page, but I'd rather I didn't, they tend to be guilty pleasures more than interest. I gain most of my knowledge about the news through my classes though, which is probably the best way if there is a best way. Taking political science makes it hard to ignore current events, and the presidential debates have come up in my anthropology class.

Not at college I watch Sportcenter, I usually don't get sick of that until halfway through the second viewing. Or when they stop talking about sports.

I've seen far too many episodes of Chelsea Lately too, much like the email news articles is a guilty pleasure but so so brain numbing. It's basically gossip, bleh.

 

[Richey]

it's all apart of media distraction and sensation, it is an art to them.

personally i prefer to buy unbias newspapers that i can just read through, once a week, it means i'm not consumed by the 90% negativity that news media shoves into peoples face each day. mainstream news is heavily weighed down by celebrity nonsense and "bad" news, there is never good news.

i would say that news channels and radio news channels often lead people down a path of becoming worriers and are often guilt ridden as well..

just say you have two people, one person spends all day listening to the news and worried and feels stressed, the other person plays snooker, golf, eats out at a restaurant, spends money and buys a few nice things, walks the dog, plays the xbox/ps3, goes to a museum for the day ...

nothing that either of those two people do will change the news at all. people had to live through the second world wars and the great depression however it doesnt stop people from enjoying or living their life ...

being poor doesnt hold people back it's feeling and believing that they are poor and that they'll always be that way that is the biggest problem.

 

[pop-princess]

I care for news. I think it's really important to follow what happens in the world and I like to stay updated (I try to stay to the few unbiased ones)

Watching and reading about news actually makes me forget about 'me, me, me' for a while and realise there are more important stuff going on in the world.

Knowledge is powah!